The Washington critic., 1887-12-19
Personal AND SOCIAL.
Senator and Mrs. Stewart gave di
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ncr party on saturday night.
Mrs. j. V. l.. Pruyn, accompanied by
her daughters, will go 10 Albany this
week to spend the Christmas holidays
with Judge and Mrs. Amasa Parker,
Mrs. Pruyns parents, who will spend a
part of the winter here with her.
General Anderson and wife enter
tainod General and Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee
at dinner last week.
Senator Mcpherson gave gentlemen's
dinner on Saturday night to Sir Thomas
Henry Grattan- -Esmonde and Mr.Arthur
OConnor, the Irish Home Rulers. The
other guests We're Secretary Whitney,
Speaker Carlisle, Colonel Lamont, Sena-
tors Beck, Vance, Kenna, Hawlcy, In
gals and Sherman, Representatives
Randall, Breckenridge; Springer, Col
Inns, McAdoo, Phelps and Mr.. Stilson
Hutchins. a1
Lieutenant Mason Blunt and Miss
Mary Ross will be married on Wednes-
day at st. Matthew's parsonage. The
young couple will start directly to Fort
Elliott, where Lieutenant Blunt has
been ordered.
The Dixie Cotillion give their first
german on Monday, December 26,
and fortniehtly thereafter during the
season. Mrs. Bates, Mrs. Reagan, Mrs.
Muldrow, Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Blan-
chard will be the chaperones. The
membership includes about twenty
young ladies, all Southern girls.
Mrs. Hunt, widow of the late Minister
to Russia, is back at her I street house
for the winter. She is in mourning.
Mrs. Joseph Redfern was taken Sc
riously i'll on Friday night last and her
family have been in much concern since
over her condition.
Mrs. Whiney's three children will be
home this week to spend the holidays.
fortunate this year in keeping up their
She will not give the Christmas-tree
party this season which was such beau
tiful event on last Christmas eve.
The snowstorm on Saturday afternoon
broke up the plans of those intending to
make calls in the northwestern section.
Up to ! o'clock few Struggling pedes-
| trians braved the elements, but the most
assiduous gave up then.
Colonel and Mrs. John M. Wilson
will have their daughter, Miss Gussie,
home with them for the holidays.
Mrs. Silas Casey has invitations out
for tea on tomorrow, from to Z.
Colonel and Mrs. Hudson give an
evening reception on Thursday of this
week. -1f
Lieutenant and Mrs. Irwin returned
from their wedding journey on Saturday
and have taken up their residence at
the Windsor for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Chew gave a
dinner on Saturday night
..,..1I a1a1.. A.,
his 2lst birthday by giving full dress
masquerade ball at the rooms of the
Washington Cycle Club, 1923 Twelfth
Knight will be the chaperone. Dancing
at o'clock.
Lieutenant r. c. Van Nliet, adjutant
of the Tenth Infantry, and family ar
rived last evening from New Mexico and
arc stopping with General Van Vliet,
Fifteenth street.
Mrs. General Sheridan will not be at
home to callers tomorrow.
Mrs. Eastman, wife Of Commander
Thomas ii. Eastman of the navy, is in
the city on a visit to her parents, Doctor
and Mrs. Maxwell of ZIG | street. Her
two daughters are with her.
Passed Assistant Engineer r. T. Hall
of the navy, of the Ossipee, was recent
ly married to Miss Annie ii. Martin,
daughter of Councilman j. W. Martin of
Norfolk.
The wedding OF Mr.. Jesse TYSON and
Miss Edith Johns, granddaughter of the
late Bishop Johns of Virginia, will take
place OH the 9th proximo.
Mr.. Thomas Swami, stepson of Major
Latrobe of Baltimore, and Miss Cureta
Mason of Loudoun County, Virginia,
will be married ut Wormley's, Decem-
Der 81 a-s
Misses Ella Stonestreet and Belle
Kingdom, two Of Rockville's debutantes,
are stopping for a few days with Miss
Sneed, 1907 S street northwest.
Mrs. Professor Newcomb, assisted by
the Misses Newcomb, will receive ON
Fridays at their new home, 1920 p street.
Miss Claude Money, the daughter of
ex-Congressman Money, was married in
Mississippi last week 10 Mr.. Hill, gen.
tlenian of long acquaintance, but not the
one who was expected to be the happy
man. The affair was in the nature Of
an elopement and caused considerable
surprise to everybody, including her
parents, who are ut present residing in
Washington.
Miss May Williams, daughter of the
late Colonel Thomas G. Williams of San
Antonio, is visiting her sister, Mrs. e. ].
Gresham, at 1919 Ninth street, N. w.